Author Of Memoir About Escaping Gang Life Shot Dead After Book Launch

“[Nedim] Yasar, who was born in Turkey and arrived in Denmark at the age of four, had led the Copenhagen-based criminal gang Los Guerreros – a notorious gang with links to the drugs trade, according to police. He quit the gang in 2012” and had just published a book titled Roots: A Gangster’s Way Out. He was shot as he was leaving a launch party at a Copenhagen bookstore.